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AMO v3 (Remora) launch delayed 24 hours

As I’m sure many of you are aware, today (Feb 12th) was the scheduled release day for Remora, which will bring localization, a more inclusive review system, and discussion capabilities to the addons.mozilla.org site. We had a maintenance window scheduled for today from 7-11pm Pacific, and during that period we discovered a number of issues related to differences between our test environment and the production one, as well as some late-breaking bugs found by our testers.

While we were able to resolve all but one of those issues to our satisfaction — and that of our test suite — we ended up making sufficient changes to the system that we wanted to take another day to test it in the production environment before we put it in front of Firefox’s tens of millions of users.

It’s a heart-breaking decision for the Remora team, but we think it’s the right thing for our users, and we’d rather have 24 hours of disappointment than put the users’ experience at risk.

On the bright side, this will give us an extended window to take updates from our intrepid localizers, as those changes are sufficiently low risk that we’re comfortable taking them during tomorrow’s test-and-test-some-more window.

Thanks to everyone for their patience and support; we’re so close now that we can taste it.

What I really would like is to clean up the site by not having the same add-on in 12 different categories. It’s highly annoying to spend your time searching through hundreds of add-ons when you keep seeing the same ones.

It makes the pages load slower, it lowers the quality of the site for users, and like I said, it’s just annoying overkill.

Yea, the extensions have gotten out of control, well at least the search for them. Maybe there needs to be the Official Tested Proven Extensions and the Your on Your Own Extensions listing? I like the extensions but there needs to be some more robust testing before some kind of stamp is placed on them.

New extension list is down to 5.
No more link that shows More new extensions sorted by date, showing the newest.
No more paging to go on the next page of new version of extensions.
No more usable RSS feed listing by order date new extension.
When listing extensions, the list do not show the date of the extension.

Hello
Although this new version is expected to bring localization, I fully agree with previous Jacques’ comments. IMHO, I find the current AMO pages for Thunderbird far more usable than the current (soon old) AMO pages for Firefox, the main reason being the way New extensions are handled. This is the only reason I regurlarly go to AMO : to check for new versions. And these are not very well displayed in Remora ! Sorry
But thanks a lot for the localisation
Olivier

I’m going to not rant about plugins but all I’ll ask is if the new site doesn’t include this, please include not only the ability to hit the advance options to search before you submit your first query but also the ability to select which version of the program you use.

I can’t tell you how heart breaking it is to loose an extension that you sue every day because of an upgrade, but I can at least tell that its extremely frustrating to find a possibly dynamite plugin only to find its a few versions incompatible.

any update on the release? I’ve been sitting here in the virtual parking lot waiting and waiting for you to open the doors to the new site. Camping out here is getting a little dull. Any insights to the expected launch date are welcome.

Wil — thanks for pointing this out …. I’m just so excited to see what you do with the site. With the explosion of add-ons the old one had lost it’s ability to support this community. I’m looking forward to finding new add-ons.

It’s like waiting for Star Wars to be released…. and I want to be in the front row!

I just want to say thank you… and thank you very much…. It is such a nice feeling to think I have a choice when it comes to going into the Internet. I feel so much free. You people are doing a great job. The likes me feel nothing but gratitude and truly freedom and with class, probably like the rider on your front page. I find your logo speaks volumes. Thank you mozilla.
Fabian

it seems that the update has been rolled back to the previous site, and wont be released until it is bug-free and ready.

It was released on feb 15 for some time (as far as i know, because that very same thay i noticed the change), and then, after a lot of problems trying to open it and to download several extensions, it seems that they just got back to the ‘old’ version we all know…

I don’t have an idea on when the new site will be launched, but the site (url) is supposed to be the same.

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see you soon.

I am fairly new to computers. I do hope that your Mozilla Firefox is user friendly due to the fact that I am still trying to learn all that I can about this truly amazing tool. I would like to think that I had a place to turn to for help when I might need it . thank you kindly,good day. GCW